Women in Charge

This collection of E. W. Farnsworth's exciting stories features strong women of character who are brilliant, committed and successful, but not your familiar, comfortable, pliable stereotypes. For example: Mitzi Rainor is a solo private investigator of biowar crimes in 1950 San Francisco; Linda Dale, the updated Flame Girl, subverts an ingenious arson plot in Ukraine in league with a special group at the CIA; Reanna the Red, a teen-age Viking warrior maiden, finds her way as a single adventuress in the deceitful world of the turn of the first millennium; Sylvia Blackwood, a twelve-year-old prodigy, uses her role as editor of her school paper to solve mysteries in her backyard as a prelude to becoming archivist of the Boston Globe newspaper and sidekick of John Fulghum, PI; Officer Bekkah Roundel of the Phoenix police department engages a SEAL Team to combat the second invasion of a race of monsters threatening Arizona. These stories and situations may at first seem incredible, but Farnsworth has based each of his female characters on a real-life heroine, and the situations are taken from the subtexts of history. The author says, "These stories, meant to be savored as thrilling examples for young, independent-minded women and the strong young men worthy of knowing them, can be read individually or as a long, one-night binge, with pleasure."